Skates, John. The Invasion of Japan (1994), excellent military history of the greatest non-battle of all time

VanderMuelen, Jacob. "Planning for V-J Day by the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Atomic Bomb Controversy." Journal of Strategic Studies 16 (June 1993), 227-39. AAF did not expect quick surrender; bomb was military use

Terraine, John. A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945 (1985)

Verrier, Anthony. The Bomber Offensive (1969), British

Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945 (HMSO, 1961), 4 vol. Important official British history

Wood, Derek, and Derek D. Dempster. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-40 (1975) online edition

Russia

Gordon, Yefim. Soviet Air Power in World War 2 (2008)

Wagner, Ray, ed. Soviet Air Force in World War ll: The Official History (1973)

Whiting, Kenneth R. "Soviet Air Power in World War II," in Alfred F. Hurley and Robert C. Erhart, eds. Air Power and Air Warfare (1979) 98-127

Germany

British Air Ministry. Rise and Fall of the German Air Force (1948, reprint 1969), excellent official history; reprint has introduction by H. A. Probert, who was not the author

Fritzsche, Peter. "Machine Dreams: Airmindedness and the Reinvention of Germany." American Historical Review, 98 (June 1993): 685-710. Air warfare was seen as a growing threat to Germany, and it became a means of national mobilization and redemption. Nazi Germany believed that air warfare would allow the country to rebuild itself in a racial compact. During World War II, air warfare became a means for rejuvenating authority domestically and increasing imperial influence abroad.

Galland, Adolf. The First and the Last: German Fighter Forces in World War II (1955)

Irving, David. The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe: The Life of Erhard Milch (1973) online edition

Davis, Richard G. "Operation 'Thunderclap': The US Army Air Forces and the Bombing of Berlin." Journal of Strategic Studies (March 1991) 14:90-111.

Garrett, Stephen A., Ethics and Airpower in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities (1993)

Havens, Thomas R. H. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two (1978)

Hopkins, George F. "Bombing and the American Conscience During World War II," The Historian 28 (May 1966): 451-73

Lammers, Stephen E. "William Temple and the bombing of Germany: an Exploration in the Just War Tradition." The Journal of Religious Ethics, 19 (Spring 1991): 71-93. Explains how the Archbishop of Canterbury justified strategic bombing.

Markusen, Eric, and David Kopf. The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century (1995)

Schaffer, Ronald. "American Military Ethics in World War II: The Bombing of German Civilians," Journal of American History 67 (1980) 318-34 in JSTOR

Schaffer, Ronald. Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II (1985)

Spaight, J. M. Air Power and War Rights (1947), legal

Speer, Alfred. Inside the Third Reich (1970), memoir of top Nazi economic planner